An Assessment of Radiological Hazards from Gold Mine Tailings …
In South Africa, the gold mining industry has existed for over a century. As a result, mine tailings are littered everywhere, particularly in the Wonderfonteinspruit Catchment Area (WCA), posing a threat to local communities. The communities living around these areas are threatened by radioactive pollution mainly caused by uranium .
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Exceedance of environmental exposure limits to crystalline …
Exceedance of environmental exposure limits to crystalline silica in communities surrounding gold mine tailings storage facilities in South Africa Sci Total Environ . 2018 Apr 1:619-620:504-516. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.11.135.
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Tailings Retreatment: Mogale heads for year-end start-up
South African gold producer Pan African Resources, listed on London's AIM and the JSE, is on time and within budget on its US$135 million Mogale Tailings Retreatment (MTR) project at Mintails, which represents a major expansion of its tailings retreatment footprint. ... Elikhulu at its Evander Gold Mine and the Barberton Tailings …
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Progress at Pan African's gold tailings treatment project on …
Excellent progress has reportedly been made with the construction of the R2.5-billion gold tailings retreatment project, west of Johannesburg, on Gauteng's West Rand. The continued momentum of ...
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Tailings Retreatment: Mogale heads for year-end …
South African gold producer Pan African Resources, listed on London's AIM and the JSE, is on time and within budget on its US$135 million Mogale Tailings Retreatment (MTR) project at Mintails, which …
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What's left in the wake of South Africa's abandoned gold mines
In 2013, mining companies produced 562,000 times as much waste as gold, according to the South African Chamber of Mines. A decade before, that same ratio was less than half as large, at 212,000-to-1. Mining operations are generating increased waste because South Africa's gold is running out, and the remaining resource only can …
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Mintails Mogale Gold tailings storage facilities, South Africa …
Name of the Project Mintails Mogale Gold tailings storage facilities (TSFs). Location Near Krugersdorp, to the west of Johannesburg, in Gauteng, South Africa. Project Owner/s Pan African Resources ...
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Mogale Gold tailings storage facilities, South Africa – update
Mogale Gold tailings storage facilities (TSFs). Location. Near Krugersdorp, to the west of Johannesburg, in Gauteng, South Africa. Project Owner/s. Pan African Resources. Project...
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Tailings monitoring tech making headway in African mining
Tailings monitoring tech making headway in African mining. TECH STARTING UP More attention is being paid to tailings storage facility safety monitoring technology amid the introduction of the ...
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Mega tailings dam in South Africa could get kyboshed
Fin24 is reporting that a huge tailings dam being built in Kuma township could get kyboshed due to opposition from environmental groups, pressure groups and demands from landowners. The Kareerand ...
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Assessing environmental radon contribution by different …
radon exhalations rates from gold mine tailings (Speelman 2004; Lindsay et al. 2004; Ongori et al. 2015). Other stud - ies and surveys on radon concentrations levels and radon dispersion from mining related facilities are commissioned by the mining companies. In essence, these studies and their results are the propriety of those regulated mining
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Assessing environmental radon contribution by different
The tailings dam contains gold mine tailings from an old, non-operational closed mine shaft situated on the south of tailings dam. The dam is in Lejweleputswa District Municipality, Free State Province, (South Africa) between Odendaalsrus (-27°51′59.99" S 26°40′59.99" E) and Allanridge (27°45′15.52"S, 26°38′37.75"E) towns.
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From Tailings to Treasure? A New Mother Lode
DRD Gold, one of the first South African companies to abandon traditional mining to focus on extracting gold from tailings. …
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Mining companies pressed to embrace global standards …
Two more tailings dam failures have occurred at mines in Tanzania and South Africa. Mining companies everywhere are being urged to immediately embrace the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management as a top priority. In 2022, the eastern wall of the tailings storage facility at the Williamson mine was breached.
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A critical review of the impact of South Africa's mine closure …
Mining companies that have mature assets can use liquidation to avoid the full expense of closure and rehabilitation, as described by Humby 14 and LHRs. 52 Lawyers for Human Rights 52 further argued that South Africa's gold sector appears to be experiencing a gradual decline, which could mean that many mining communities are …
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Mining Weekly
Meanwhile, Pan African's Barberton Tailings Retreatment Plant (BTRP) produced 28 590 oz of gold at an exceptionally low all-in sustaining cost of $332/oz. It also increased gold production by ...
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South African gold producer to go public in combination …
South African gold producer Aurous, which owns and operates the Blyvoor gold mine and the Gauta tailings retreatment project on Gauteng's West Rand, has announced plans to go public through a ...
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Perceptions of external costs of dust fallout from …
Mining is important for the South African economy, as it is for many developing African nations. In 2017, mining was reported to contribute 6.8 % to the South African GDP and provided more than ...
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Mining Investment Opportunities in South Africa
Revenue from mining sales for the 2021 financial year for the platinum group metals (PGMs) sector reached R300.7-billion – double the R150.9-billion posted in FY 2020. Sales of iron ore hit R116-billion (+61% YoY), and R102.6-billion for gold (+26% YoY). Annual net profit of the mining sector increased to approximately R274 billion.
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South African miners see gold in hills of waste
"Low-cost gold mining like the remaining of tailings has a good future in South Africa," said Pan African's environmental officer Reino van den Berg, on a tour of the tailings hills. South ...
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Tailings management | Sibanye-Stillwater
Mr Danie Brink: Danie is an independent specialist tailings consultant. He has 37 years' experience in the field of mining and industrial waste management, with a particular focus on the design and surveillance of tailings storage facilities and the closure design of waste and tailings facilities. Danie resides in South Africa.
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Contaminant leaching from gold mining tailings dams in …
1. Introduction. Acid mine drainage (AMD), resulting from the gold mining activities in the Witwatersrand, South Africa, has become the focus of intense study in recent years (Naicker et al., 2003, Cukrowska et al., 2004, Coetzee et al., 2010, Nengovhela et al., 2007, Tutu et al., 2008, Peretyazhko et al., 2009).This is mostly due to fears …
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Re-Processing Gold Tailings in South Africa
ABSTRACT. The technical and economic feasibility or re-processing hundreds of millions of tons of tailings in a number of historic gold tailings dams in the Witwatersrand area of South Africa is being investigated. The objective is to recover uranium and residual gold from the tailings, as well as to oxidize the sulphides to eliminate long term ...
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DRDGOLD Gold: Minting Gold From Waste (NYSE:DRD)
Company Overview. DRDGOLD Limited (DRD) is a South African gold mining company best known for producing gold from reprocessing historical waste tailings. DRDGOLD is actually South Africa's oldest ...
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Gold Mining in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities, and …
South Africa's gold mines, once the apex of global gold production, now grapple with deep-seated challenges – aging infrastructure and depths that test the limits of modern mining.
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Push for smaller mining firms to follow suit on tailings …
Notably, 77 major publicly listed mining companies, encompassing more than half of the market capitalisation of listed mining firms, have pledged to implement the tailings safety standard crafted ...
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Water security: South African mining companies play their …
The group's South African gold operations and US PGM operations (located in Montana in the United States) are water rich and so water discharge compliance and water independence from potable water sources are focus areas. The SA PGM operations are water scarce, therefore water security, for safe production, plays a key …
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Feasibility of tailings retreatment to unlock value and …
The Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy VOLUME 121 JUL 2021 361 ... unlock value and create environmental sustainability of the Louis Moore tailings dump near Giyani, South Africa N.K. Singo1 and J.D. Kramers1 Synopsis The reprocessing of tailings resources to extract gold on an industrial scale has become common ...
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Yellow River to build Theta's TGME Gold Plant in South Africa
Theta Gold Mines has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Yellow River (YRC), a Power Construction Corporation of China (PowerChina) unit, for the construction of the first phase of its TGME project in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. The agreement includes the development of a tailings storage facility and wastewater …
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The link between mine waste and apartheid in South Africa
Waste from the mining industry has perpetuated apartheid-like policies in South Africa, a new book by Stanford University historian Gabrielle Hecht states. According to Hecht, apartheid can be ...
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